OAKLAND, Calif., April 9, 2025—The Josh Bersin Company, the world’s most trusted human capital advisory firm, today unveils major upgrades to its AI-powered Galileo™ HR Assistant, delivering enhanced functionality, deeper data insights, expanded use cases, smarter coaching, and advanced leadership development capabilities.
The newest release of the HR advisory sector’s smartest professional AI agent, Mercury—built on 25+ years of Josh Bersin Company expertise—now delivers unmatched, 24/7 support and deeply personalized resourcing for HR practitioners.
This move builds on the momentum of Galileo’s Professional version launch in October, adding even more power to the platform with:
- A built-in Reasoning Engine within the core Sana-based Galileo platform enables “chain of thought” multi-step tasks, bringing it closer to full Agentic AI.
- Integration of SHL’s industry-leading skills model, the renowned Universal Competency Framework. Backed by millions of talent decisions, SHL provides validated behavioral skills insights to help Galileo users identify skills that drive success in any role, create succession plans, nurture leaders, and target development strategies.
- Integration with Lightcast’s unparalleled global labor market data—leveraging billions of real-time data points for the world’s clearest picture of occupations and skills— lets Galileo users benchmark salaries, analyze job markets by location, and use Galileo as a talent intelligence system. Users can ask, “Compare these pay levels to market salaries” or “Which cities are best for hiring these roles, and why?”
- Introduction of the Meeting Assistant, allowing Galileo Pro users to integrate Galileo into web-based meetings, record discussions, and leverage data for candidate analysis, project summaries, and team productivity.
- Introduction of “Intelligent Benchmarking,” a new consultant mode that transforms Galileo into an HR or organizational consultant, initially focused on helping HR leaders and teams benchmark their programs against the Josh Bersin Company maturity models.
These enhancements expand Galileo’s powerful content ecosystem—backed by decades of Josh Bersin Company research, and enterprise-grade tools, data, and AI capabilities. Now adopted by over 200 organizations and thousands of individual users, including Conagra Brands and Rolls-Royce, Galileo enables HR teams to elevate their work and careers like never before.
Integrating these new features and databases into Galileo empowers HR teams with advanced capabilities, allowing them to:
- Find, hire, and onboard the perfect candidate—Upload resumes and a job description, and Galileo will instantly analyze applicant data, identify key skills, and generate a ranked table of candidates with strengths and weaknesses. It will also build custom behavioral interviews along with interview guides, onboarding plans, and development plans for new staff. View the video.
- Set fair and competitive pay with confidence—Galileo quickly assesses market pay by location and for role, helping HR set a target salary or benchmark company pay programs to help HR teams identify pay gaps, ensure equity, and align compensation with shifting market conditions.
- Source talent in key locations—Need a chemical engineer in three specific cities? By combining proprietary, real-time labor market intelligence (Lightcast) with The Josh Bersin Company’s research corpus, Galileo identifies salary benchmarks, local job title variations, active employers, and skill availability in each region. This supports location planning, local sourcing, and ad placement for hiring. View the video.
- Find and develop leaders—Gain insights into the core behavioral skills that define great leadership. By uploading employee profiles and interview data, Galileo can apply the world’s leading leadership capability model (SHL) to assess who is ready for leadership, build development plans for leaders, and even coach leaders themselves on any workplace or employee challenge. View the video.
- Self-assess organizational maturity—Gain insight into your company’s standing across key HR domains like Talent Acquisition and Employee Experience. Step-by-step prompts help evaluate your baseline and provide strategic action plans based on Bersin Company maturity models. View the video.
With these additions, Galileo cements its status as the ultimate problem-solving and professional development tool for HR practitioners.
Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, says:
“Galileo’s Mercury release is a monumental upgrade, achieving levels of intelligence and problem-solving that exceeded even our expectations. Now Galileo can turn every HR professional into a Superworker, improving their skills, problem-solving abilities, and access to tools and data. The entire HR profession will be changed.”
“Even I was surprised by what it could do. I recently uploaded 30 interviews with Chief Learning Officers and Galileo gave me a comprehensive analysis of each company, then built a detailed roadmap for each company’s migration to AI.”
“The key takeaway is this: HR professionals now have access to insights and capabilities that organizations typically spend millions on—whether from AI-driven talent intelligence, human capital frameworks, or L&D content libraries—all powered by the latest AI and delivered instantly at their fingertips.”
To explore the Galileo Mercury upgrade for yourself, your team, or your organization, visit www.joshbersin.com/galileo for more detail and to gain immediate access. If you are a Galileo user, you already have access to these enhancements.
